Baseball before We Knew It
A Search for the Roots of the Game
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebaseballbeforewe00bloc
- Internet Archivebaseballbeforewe00davi
- ISBN-100803213395
- ISBN-139780803213395
- Library of Congress Control Number2004016099
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number56014560
- Better World Books9780803213395
- Open LibraryOL7904922M
Classifications
- LCCGV862.5.B56 2005
- LCCGV862.5 .B56 2005
Description
Baseball, Block convincingly argues, was not a product of rounders, and its essential form had already been established by the late 18th century. Where, then, did baseball come from? In search of an answer, Block, a retired systems analyst and an antiquarian book collector, has attacked baseball's literary record with methodical zeal. The result is a joyfully discursive romp through the history of ball sports and a compelling new theory of the game's origins.
First Sentence
The age-old debate over baseball's ancestry has always been long on bluster and short on facts.
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